Child Support Use

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What is the name of your state? Illinois

Can anyone explain to me exactly what child support payments are to be used for. Also, can the ex-spouse use it to pay bills. Thank You!

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

What is the name of your state? Illinois

Can anyone explain to me exactly what child support payments are to be used for. Also, can the ex-spouse use it to pay bills. Thank You!

My response:

You said - - "can the ex-spouse use it to pay bills." (he said without a question mark).

Please define what that means. What bills?

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[snodderly]

Let's see, electric bill means your children have heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer. Water bill means they have water to drink, can flush their toilets and take a bath. Phone bill means they can speak to their father when he calls....if he calls that is. Car payment means that the woman who has the majority of the time with your children will have an automobile to drive them to and fro in.

I'm pretty sure a judge would not frown on her paying bills with child support. Unless of course, she is out buying herself expensive clothes, shoes, dinners and holidays. As you all know, that's all us custodial mom's spend child support on anyway
snodderly

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

My further response:

The purposes of child support money ebbs and flows like the tides. Basically, child support is for "necessaries of life" (food, clothing, shelter, etc.) But, like the tide, these things change as the child gets older, and in step with the child's "station in life"; e.g., a rich child's "necessities" are different from that of a child from a middle class or poor family.

One other point. You seem to be asking about "control" of the money; e.g., "can I dictate how that child support money is spent?" The answer to that is simple - - no. Once that money is in Momma Bear's hands, it belongs to her and now that money "is hers". As long as the child is receiving the "necessaries of life", then no one can argue the point of "where is all that money going?"

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